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It's in my garden, just started flowering. Situated in partial shade, seems to be a runner as it's started spreading everywhere (I don't mind as I like it!).


I got it from a stall at a fete in Dorset a couple of years back.


It was wrongly labelled and I've never been able to identify it. This is the first year it's flowered, possibly because I took it out of its pot in shade and planted it in the garden where it gets a bit of sun.


It's got quite distinctive leaves which are almost heart-shaped, and I can't understand why I can't find out what it is as I'm sure it must be quite common :-$


ETA: Sorry for the out-of-focus pic of the flower - you can see it better in the second pic, which also shows the leaf better (I'm obviously not referring to the ivy .....)

red devil Wrote:

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> Snow Poppy...


xxxxxx


You are a genius. That's it. Thanks! Never even heard of it before.


I knew it wasn't a Japanese anemone - wrong flower, wrong leaves, wrong season :)


Razors, haven't you got anything better to do?

I just looked it up, and found


"An extract from the rhizome (or root-stalk) has been investigated as an economic source of a molluscicide by Chinese scientists."


I wish I'd know this before I discovered that ******* snails have eaten all the shoots from a Clematis I only planted last year (6)


:))

No probs Sue...I might have to invest in a Snow Poppy too to sort out those pesky snails...last year I lost a Lupin and a Delphinium to them, they also decimated a Hosta which was supposed to be snail proof, I put that in a pot and glad to say it has survived and is now shooting up...I actually haven't come across any snails yet this Spring, was wondering whether it was down to the dry mild winter, but sounds like you've got them all :)

Red Devil, did you already know what the Snow Poppy was? Because I tried several plant identification sites, going through all the flower colour, perennial, leaf shape blah blah and couldn't find it at all - or maybe I just wasn't patient enough :))


Yep, Snails 'r 'Us chez Sue.


Surely it couldn't have been snails which ate all my frogspawn????


I have never heard of a snail-proof hosta. I find if you put sharp grit around them it helps, also in a pot they are slightly less likely to be attacked .....

No I didn't know it Sue, I thought about plant finder sites too, but I suspected it might be a wild flower so gave that a miss.

As it only had 4 petals and a distinct heart shaped leaf, which I thought were both unusual, I decided to Google that info, and then clicked on 'Images' rather than trawling through websites.

The Hosta I have is called Sum and Substance, and it's tough corrugated leaves are supposed to deter snails.

I have placed some coarse grit over the whole of the Hosta pot and also around a few other susceptible plants in the main garden bed...fingers crossed! :)

Ah - I used to have Sum and Substance, it's lovely.


Where is it now? Who knows. I've only ever grown hostas in pots (rather than in the ground), and I appear to have none at all at the moment :))


I know they're often slow to come through after the Winter, but there's no sign of anything - serves me right for not labelling things properly (or not replacing the labels) so I don't actually remember which pots they were in :))

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